Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ It's My Game ❯ The Letters ( Chapter 3 )

After they had all finished their ice cream, everyone had parted their ways and gone home. It was all for the better because Tai just wanted time to veg out at home and not worry about soccer for once in his life.

When they reached the apartment, Tai got out his keys and he unlocked the door. Tai and Kari walked into their apartment together.

"I'll check the mail!" Tai yelled as he grabbed the mailbox key from the hook.

"Fine Tai" Kari laughed.

Tai ran back down the flight of stairs to the main floor of their building. All the times going up and down them helped condition Tai for soccer.

When he got to their mailbox he opened it with the key and grabbed the few letters that were in there.

"Bills, Bills, Bills, Stuff for Mum and Dad" he said sorting though them when the last two caught his eye. One was addressed to him and the other to Kari. They looked identical down to the last detail. And neither of them had a return address. The handwriting was so perfect it looked like it should have been done on a computer but the ink gave it away from being out of a fountain pen. Tai became a little suspicious of the letters but he then shrugged it off thinking that maybe it was something from the school or maybe a friend. Mimi was maybe having a party or something. She'd be one to give out fancy invitations.

Tai ran upstairs again and let himself into their apartment. Dropping the letters for their parents by the door Tai brought the other two into the living room where Kari was watching TV.

"Hey we got letters... They look the same too," he said "Maybe we should open them together or something?"

Kari looked up from the TV quickly "Can we open them later? I'm watching SmapXSmap"

Tai sighed. His sister was a Smap junkie. "Yeah, we'll open them once it's over. You want anything to eat? I'm starving!"

Kari gave him a strange look "Tai, we just had ice cream... I'm not hungry and you shouldn't be either. You had a HUGE Sunday at the shop with extra ice cream added. I don't think that I could eat that much ice cream in a week!"

"I am hungry still. Ice cream doesn't fill you. It's a great mood booster food though. I'm going to see if there's any left over curry from last night's dinner" Tai walked off into the kitchen. "You sure you don't want any?" he called back into the living room.

"Yes!" Kari said and Tai knew that she would be rolling her eyes at that moment.

Opening the refrigerator he saw a bowl of curry that hadn't been eaten at supper last night. His grandmother had made it and it was the best tasting curry that he had ever had. Tai loved the way his grandmother made curry because she never put corn in it like his mom did. Tai thought that it was wrong to put corn in curry. Closing the refrigerator he walked to the cupboard and grabbed a bowl. Next stop was the rice cooker where he loaded his bowl with rice and then he returned to the refrigerator where he dumped half of the left over curry on his rice. Moving to the microwave he set the timer to heat his curry and then poured himself a cup of tea.

"Kari, you want some Tea?" he yelled to the living room.

"Sure!" she yelled back.

Tai poured another glass of tea and walked out to the living room with both. He handed one to Kari as the microwave dinged, letting him know that his curry was done. Placing his own glass down on the coffee table he ran back to the kitchen to grab his curry.

When he sat back down, Kari looked over at him. Her eyes grew wide as she saw the mound of curry her brother had served himself.

"You know... You eat too much," She said.

"I'm a growing boy!" Tai laughed.

"Yeah, growing in the stomach area!" Kari teased. That wasn't true at all. With all the time he spent keeping in shape for soccer, Tai was lean and strong.

The phone rang and Kari and Tai fought over who would answer it. Tai won.

"Hello?"

"Tai, it's Matt. Did you get anything in the mail? Kari too?" the voice from the other end spoke.

"Yeah. We got letters that are identical. Kind of weird if you ask me but I don't know what's in them. We haven't opened them yet because we are waiting for Queen Kari to finish watching TV" Tai answered.

Kari looked over at Tai and stuck out her tongue.

"Tai, listen to me. Open them now. I'll be over in a few minutes with Sora and TK. I'm going to call everyone else and tell them to head over to your place to okay?" Matt said and then not waiting for an answer, hung up.

Tai looked at the receiver and then placed it back down.

"Who was that?" Kari asked.

"It was Matt. He said that he's coming over and bringing Sora and TK along" Tai said as he grabbed the remote and turned the TV off.

"HEY! I was watching that!" Kari yelled.

"We're opening these letters now!" Tai said.

He threw the one addressed to Kari at her and then picked up the one for him. He stared at it wondering what had gotten Matt so stressed out. Flipping the envelope over he stuck his finger under the flap and ripped it open.

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Tai looked around his living room. He had always thought that his family's apartment was quite big. It was just the right size for him, Kari, his mum and dad. It was even big enough that you could almost forget that there was a cat wandering around there somewhere, except for the fur that it left on almost everything.

Looking around at the eleven people jammed into it, including himself, it didn't seem quite so big anymore.

Miyako looked a little stressed "Where is Ken?"

Tai rolled his eyes. It was so like Miyako to notice that Ken was missing. But then again where was that kid?

"I couldn't get a hold of him" Matt spoke up.

"Yeah, we tired to call him five times. Sora even tried from her Cell on the way over here." TK said "Has anyone else heard from him since the soccer game?"

Everyone in the room just stared blankly at TK and Matt.

Tai finally spoke up "Well, we can't sit around and do nothing until we get a hold of him. I say lets talk about this now and we'll just have to fill him in later when we get a hold of him."

Everyone nodded and Tai looked around the room. They all held the same letter that he and Kari had received.

"So everyone got one?" Izzy asked.

All the other heads in the room started to nod.

"Okay so they all are the same" Mimi said "so what are we going to do?"

Tai looked at the piece of paper in his hand and re-read it again for the billionth time.

"Dear Chosen Children,

The digital world is in great trouble.
You're help is needed immediately!
You must gather with the other chosen children
Wednesday at 1am in Odaiba Park.
By the Fountain the portal will be opened.
Please help save us!"

"Well I say we do what it says!" Daisuke said.

"You would," TK commented.

"What do you mean by that?" Daisuke glared.

"Maybe it might be a trap" TK replied.

"Can we chance it? We are the chosen children and the digital world is linked to ours. If we let things fall apart there it'll affect things here" Mimi spoke up.

"Izzy have you been able to find out anything on your computer?" Miyako asked.

Izzy shook his head "No I haven't… When I look at the Digital world everything seems to be functioning properly. I don't know what this `great trouble' that the letter is talking about at all."

"Well that does make it seem a whole lot more like a trap when you put it that way" Joe said.

"But what if it's something that Izzy can't see on his computer… Maybe someone wants us to think that nothing is wrong" Kari spoke up.

"Could you keep checking up on the Digital World Izzy?" Sora asked.

The red haired boy nodded and patted his laptop. "I'll check it every hour until Wednesday."

"I agree with Kari. We can't just sit here and do nothing!" Mimi said.

"Well how about this, everyone who is in favor to meet at the park on Wednesday raise your hand" Tai said.

He watched as slowly, one by one, all the hands in the room were raised. He then raised his.

"I still want Izzy to check things out in the meantime" Sora said.

"Don't worry, I was still planning on it" Izzy smiled at her.

The front door of the apartment opened and Mr. and Mrs. Kamiya walked in.

"Oh! Looks like you have company over!" Mrs. Kamiya smiled "Tai honey why didn't you tell me that your friends were coming over? I could have left snacks for all of you"

"Uh that's okay mom. We went out for ice cream" Tai said happy that he didn't have to subject his friends to his mothers cooking.

"Oh well, if any of you are still hungry, I could whip something up for you right now!" his mother said brightly.

"Ah, thanks Mrs. Kamiya but Sora and I have a movie that we were going to catch… we don't want to be late do we Sora?" Matt said quickly.

"No, we don't" Sora smiled.

"Hey, Kari and I were going to go with you to that!" TK smiled and nodded at Kari "Weren't we?"

"Umm…. Yeah" Kari said "I hope you don't mind"

"Okay have fun!" Mrs. Kamiya said "How about the rest of you? Can I interest you in anything? I know you love my shakes Izzy!"

Izzy's stomach began to hurt at the thought of that summer long ago when he had one too many of her shakes.

Miyako seeing the look on his face spoke quickly "Actually, he's coming with me over to Iori's house to help me fix his computer."

Iori nodded and they got up with TK, Kari, Matt and Sora and moved towards the door.

"As much as I'd love to stay, I only have a bit of time left here and I want to get some more shopping done in Japan before I go back to the states. Joe said that he'd come with me!" Mimi smiled.

Joe sighed with relief now having an excuse to leave.

Tai was amazed at how quickly the mention of his mothers cooking had cleared out the house. Finally it was just him his parents and the cat left.

"Well since you're all on your own tonight, I'll make you a special juice that I just got the recipe for. It's Apple, Celery and carrot juice!" His mother said starting to get busy in the kitchen.

Tai sighed wishing that he had been as smart as his friends.

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